I've been programming since I got a Commodore VIC-20 when I was seven years old.

I love AI coding because I can use it to automate all the parts that are not fun or that would take far, far too much time to implement by hand. It puts things within reach that would formerly be unthinkable without millions of dollars and a gigantic software development team.

I still also enjoy coding things by hand... interesting, original things.

The technology itself is also absolutely fascinating. I've followed AI research for a long time and played around with it a lot, but the incredible breakthroughs of the last 5-10 years have blown me away. I've been working through the math on attention layers and feel like I've almost got it, and it's genius. Very cool stuff.

(The companies behind marketing and scaling it are, to varying degrees, not cool, but the tech and science and math is.)